Dismayed, humbled, shocked to be one of this year's “Discovery" / Boston Review Poetry Contest winners. Flew to NY last month with two favorite creatures: one canine, one man, to celebrate and ready amongst friends and strangers at the 92Y. You can relive that moment here:

Awarded a scholar position at last summer's Tin House Summer Writers Workshop and worked with Gregory Pardlo; met amazing and strange humans both in the literary world and outside of it.

These days, months, and years have been very fortunate and blissful for me; I am so lucky, and I continue to work hard to deserve my lucky life.

Was granted a Bentley-Buckman Poetry Fellowship to attend Writers Week at Idyllwild Arts from July 6-10, 2015. Grateful to have a week out in the desert with Ed Skoog, Natalie Diaz, and Luis J. Rodriguez. This year has been such a poetry boon.

Always honored to be recognize--and I'm happy to be one of the two finalists for the PSA George Bogin Award this year--the winner Dean Rader was selected by judge (and favorite critic of mine) Stephen Burt.

I'm pleased to share that I received a call from Eleni Sikelianos on Friday evening inviting me to join the small poetry cohort starting this fall. It's the only program to which I applied and I'm nearly very certain I will accept this wonderful opportunity. And it's my dream program (hence--why I didn't apply anywhere else).

I'm excited to join some current poet friends there (Carolina Ebeid, Taryn Schwilling, Nicholas Gulig) as well as to get to know my cohort.

George Washing University professor, Jee Yoon Lee, kindly asked to interview me while I was in Iceland, and the result is now up--apologies for the delay in sharing it. I'm not very good at timely updates.

I was accused of not reading my rejection email, but it's not true. I did! And didn't say anything about my being a runner-up. But the Cleveland State University Poetry Center website says so, so it must be true.

Forgot to mention that I'm reading slush for Boston Review now (I love it! So much quality work in there), and will soon be writing micro-reviews for new site to be unveiled (founded by Kathleen Ossip and Spencer Short).

I needed to maintain my membership in poetry life, and this is one good way, I think. Am grateful for these opportunities.

Somehow forgot to toot the horn about this, but found out 3 weeks ago that I was the first choice for the Roth Residency in Poetry at Bucknell University! I got to choose between either fall or spring semester during the 2014-2015 academic year and opted for spring.

They won't be offering an office this year, but will be offering a larger stipend. And I'll get the whole downstairs of the Poet's Cottage (2 bedrooms + scary basement) to myself! I'll likely set up an office in one of the bedrooms and make the rest of the house into a pup maze for Beckett.

I feel so honored! Thank you so much to everyone at the Stadler Center--Shara, Andy, Katie, Carolina, and the hard-working interns.

It's such a gift to not have to work next spring and just work on a new manuscript ...

At the eve of AWP (we fly out of Philadelphia tomorrow evening), it seems appropriate to provide an update. Apologies for the long interval between updates, but I swear--not much has been happening.

But now, so many upcoming readings! 2 this week in Seattle at AWP, then a Providence reading in March, and a Brooklyn one in April. It's like I'm on a slowly moving tour that mimics the trajectory of scattered pigeon poop.

Cal Bedient will publish my review of Swamp Isthmus by Joshua Marie Wilkinson in the next issue of Lana Turner! Very honored to have such a great publication host my first ever critical review. I hope I don't blow it.